Nov. 5th, 2009

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 LibriVox.org

It has free online streaming audio books of works that have passed into the public domain (copyright expired), as well as the texts that go along with them, and...get this...it has audio books in all sorts of languages!

French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese seem to be the common ones, but I've also seen Latin, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Latvian, Yiddish, Chinese, Japanese, Cantonese...

Awesome! I've heard that audio books are a great way to improve listening comprehension, and having a text in a target language as well as in English is great for vocab-building.

Now I really want to be able to read Poe's "The Raven" in Finnish... :D
rainwaterspark: Moon Knight from Moon Knight (2021) title page, drawn by Alessandro Cappuccio (Default)
 我今天开始担心我说中文的能力,因为我的朋友问了我一个从英文翻译到中文的问题,但是我不知道怎么回答。我觉得着是因为我最近花了很多时间学日语和德语而读法语的文章,所以我开始忘记了怎么用中文造句。

我在Unilang forum里找到了一些问题,为了复习我的中文可以在这儿回答:

我的名字叫phoenix。我是在加拿大出生的,但是在美国长大的。我最喜欢的颜色是蓝色。我差不多美种水果都喜欢吃。我的父母是中国人,所以我从小在家里听他们说中文,而且每个礼拜天我的父母把我送到中文学校,但是我很不喜欢去中文学校。当我上高中的时候,我上了一个半年的中文棵,那时侯我的中文老师是非常善良的,而且他教的很好,所以我学了很多,有了很大的进步,可是现在恐怕都丢掉了,因为我好久没有上了中文棵,然后平常也不跟父母说中文,所以现在好像想不起来怎么用中文把思想表达出来,也发现了不容易在脑子里找到我需要的生词。

我其实对中文不那么感兴趣,除了我是中国人而中国现在的发展很大以外。我觉得学中文是非常难的,因为用中文造句跟用英文造句是完全不一样的,再说,中文的读、写方面当然比其他的语言难多了。虽然中文的语法比别的语言简单,但是中文有很多。。。ehn...idiomatic expressions and four-word phrase thingies.

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